Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

ISBN-13: 9780367637286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Hanna Egard; Kristofer Hansson; David Wästerfors

Opis

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion.

Spis treści

Introduction: Into the fields of stubborn obstacles and lingering exclusion.  Part 1 - City and transport.  1. Accessible enough? Legitimising half-measures of accessibility in Swedish urban environments.  2. The bus trip: Constraints, hierarchies and injustice.  3. Monitoring the standard – here, now and in person: Detecting accessibility faults as an engaged citizen.  4. Traveling insecurely: The association of security and accessibility in public transport.  Part 2 - Knowledge and education.  5. Struggles for inclusion: The unrecognised toil of hearing-impaired students.  6. Gatekeepers and gatekeeping: On participation and marginalisation in everyday life.  7.  Still waiting for the hand to be raised: On being crip killjoys at an ableist university.  8. Access to sexuality: Disabled people’s experiences of multiple barriers.  9. New barriers and new possibilities: Confronting language inaccessibility in and around a pandemic.  Part 3 - Institution, law and history.  10. It is supposed to be a home: Barriers to everyday life decisions in group homes.  11. Making the law invisible: How bureaucratic resistance makes support inaccessible.  12. Using building requirements as a means to create inclusion: Accessibility and usability at a crossroads. Afterword.